chess24.com is an

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in English and nine other languages, established in 2014 by German grandmaster Jan Gustafsson and Enrique Guzman. Among people collaborating with chess24 are World Champions, Grandmasters and International Masters including

Magnus Carlsen Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen (born 30 November 1990) is a Norwegian chess grandmaster who is the reigning five-time World Chess Champion. He is also a three-time World Rapid Chess Champion and five-time World Blitz Chess Champion. Carlsen has h ...

Viswanathan Anand Viswanathan "Vishy" Anand (born 11 December 1969) is an Indian chess grandmaster and a former five-time World Chess Champion. He became the first grandmaster from India in 1988, and is one of the few players to have surpassed an Elo rating of ...

Peter Svidler Pyotr Veniaminovich Svidler (russian: Пётр Вениами́нович Сви́длер; born 17 June 1976), commonly known as Peter Svidler, is a Russian chess grandmaster and an eight-time Russian Chess Champion who now frequently commenta ...

Rustam Kasimdzhanov Rustam Kasimdzhanov; russian: Рустам Касымджанов (born 5 December 1979) is an Uzbek chess grandmaster and former FIDE World Champion (2004-05). He was Asian champion in 1998. In addition to his tournament play, Kasimdzhan ...

Francisco Vallejo Pons Francisco Vallejo, son of Ángel R. Vallejo Jiménez, military academy graduate in Law, and Felicidad Pons Gomila. He was born in Mahón, where the main hospital on the island of Menorca was located, but he has never lived there, but rather in E ...

David Antón Guijarro David Antón Guijarro (born 23 June 1995) is a Spanish chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2013, at the age of 18. He has competed at two Chess Olympiads. Chess career Antón Guijarro won the Spanish champio ...

Laurent Fressinet Laurent Fressinet (; born 30 November 1981 in Dax) is a French chess grandmaster. He is a two-time French Chess Champion. Career He won the French Chess Championship in 2010 and 2014. In 2012 he finished second in the European Individual Chess ...

, Dorsa Derakhshani,

Lawrence Trent Lawrence Trent (born 28 April 1986) is an English International Master#International Master (IM), International Master chess player and commentator. Trent has host-commentated for major FIDE tournaments, including the World Chess Championship Fin ...

Sopiko Guramishvili Sopiko Guramishvili ( ka, სოფიკო გურამიშვილი; born 1 January 1991) is a Georgian-Dutch chess player, author, and commentator who holds the titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). Having ...

, and

Hou Yifan Hou Yifan ( ; born 27 February 1994) is a Chinese chess grandmaster, four-time Women's World Chess Champion and the second highest rated female player of all time.

. In March 2019, chess24 merged with Magnus Carlsen's company

Play Magnus AS Play Magnus Group is a Norwegian chess company co-founded by chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in 2013. The company released the mobile app '' Play Magnus'' in 2014, before merging with chess24 in 2019 and being acquired by Chess.com in 2022. Hi ...

in a transaction that made the former chess24 owners the largest shareholders in Play Magnus.

Features

A 2020 review by IM Luis Torres put chess24 as one of the three most popular internet chess servers, alongside

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and

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. Similarly to other chess servers, chess24 offers the ability to play online against other users or bots, enter online tournaments hosted on the site and view your own statistics. Torres ranked chess.com the best overall, but chess24 as the best for improving one's game. chess24 offers users the option of playing chess against each other using various time controls, playing with modified versions of

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, joining informal online tournaments, as well as watching videos on chess. There are

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s about many chess topics, online chess courses available for members, and a daily news feature. There is also an option of "going premium" (paying for membership) on chess24. Going premium allows deeper

analysis and also participation in events such as Banter Blitz, which allows Premium members to play with collaborators of chess24. Reviews have tended to favour rivals

Chess.com Chess.com is an internet chess server, news website and social networking website. The site has a freemium model in which some features are available for free, and others are available for accounts with subscriptions. Live online chess can be pla ...

and

Lichess Lichess (; ) is a free and open-source Internet chess server run by a non-profit organization of the same name. Users of the site can play online chess anonymously and optionally register an account to play rated games. Lichess is ad-free and al ...

in terms of the playing experience, while suggesting that chess24 has richer educational video content.

Tournaments

chess24 provides live coverage of major international tournaments on the website and also on YouTube with commentary by players such as

Yasser Seirawan Yasser Seirawan ( ar, ياسر سيروان; born March 24, 1960) is a Syrian-born American chess grandmaster and four-time United States champion. He won the World Junior Chess Championship in 1979. Seirawan is also a published chess author an ...

Peter Leko Peter Leko ( hu, Lékó Péter; born September 8, 1979) is a Hungarian chess player and commentator. He became the world's youngest grandmaster in 1994. He narrowly missed winning the Classical World Chess Championship 2004: the match was draw ...

, and

Tania Sachdev Tania Sachdev (born 20 August 1986) is an Indian chess player, who holds the FIDE titles of International Master (IM) and Woman Grandmaster (WGM). She is a two-time Indian women's chess champion in 2006 and 2007, one-time Asian women's chess ...

. They also host and sponsor their own events, especially since their acquisition by

. From September 2019 to April 2020, chess24 held the first international Banter Blitz Cup, an online

blitz chess Fast chess, also known as Speed chess, is a type of chess in which each player is given less time to consider their moves than normal tournament time controls allow. Fast chess is subdivided, by decreasing time controls, into rapid chess, blitz ...

tournament featuring players such as

Gata Kamsky Gata Kamsky ( tt-Cyrl, Гата Камский, italics=no; russian: Гата Камский; born June 2, 1974) is a Soviet-born American chess grandmaster, and a five-time U.S. champion. Kamsky reached the final of the FIDE World Chess Cham ...

Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa (born 10 August 2005) is an Indian chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he earned the international master title at the age of 10, the youngest at the time to do so, and the grandmaster title at age 12, the second-you ...

Parham Maghsoodloo Parham Maghsoodloo ( fa, پرهام مقصودلو, born 11 August 2000) is an Iranian chess grandmaster. He was awarded the title of Grandmaster by FIDE in 2016. Maghsoodloo is a three-time Iranian national champion and became the World Jun ...

and

Leinier Domínguez Leinier Domínguez Pérez (born September 23, 1983) is a Cuban and American chess grandmaster. A five-time Cuban champion, Domínguez was the world champion in blitz chess in 2008. He competed in the FIDE World Chess Championship in 2002 and 2 ...

with a $50,000 prize pool for players and $5,000 for streamers. It was won by

Alireza Firouzja Alireza Firouzja ( fa, علی‌رضا فیروزجا, ; born 18 June 2003) is an Iranian and French chess grandmaster. Firouzja is the youngest ever 2800- rated player, beating the previous record set by Magnus Carlsen by more than five months ...

in the final against

. From April to May 2020, chess24 held the Magnus Carlsen Invitational, an online rapid chess tournament which was won by Magnus Carlsen. This was expanded to form a conceptual tour including the Lindores Abbey Rapid Challenge, and culminating in a Grand Final, featuring Magnus Carlsen and

Hikaru Nakamura Christopher Hikaru Nakamura2021 edition was hosted in March 2021, also online, and saw the favourite Magnus Carlsen being knocked out in the semifinal by Ian Nepomniatchi, who eventually lost in the final to Dutch Grandmaster and World Championship Candidate

Anish Giri Anish Kumar Giri ( ne, अनीश कुमार गिरी; russian: Аниш Кумар Гири; born 28 June 1994) is a Russian-born Dutch chess grandmaster. A chess prodigy, he completed the requirements for the title Grandmaster at t ...

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